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British law threatening U.S. freedom of speech
Post Date: 2007-06-16 10:08:37 by A K A Stone
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The author of a U.S.-published book that accused a former Saudi banking executive of funding terrorism is battling a precedent that experts say could give any foreign libel law priority over U.S. free press and speech guarantees. The case involving Rachel Ehrenfeld is one of the "most important First Amendment cases of the past 25 years," and its potential for damaging the U.S. free press is "not yet readily recognized," 30-year American Civil Liberties Union board member Harvey Silverglate told her. Ehrenfeld, who has posted information about her case on the website of the American Center for Democracy, which she directs in its research of Middle East-based terrorism, ...
Should Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina's Church be KILLED!!!
Post Date: 2007-05-29 16:18:22 by A K A Stone
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA): Nobody expected Saturday's Operation PUSH protest at Chuck's Gun Shop & Range to be anything other than a circus of the bizarre. However, nobody anticipated that an address by a Chicago priest would include a call for the murder of a suburban gun shop owner and legislators who oppose gun control. During an address at an anti-gun rally in front of Chuck's, Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina's Church, exhorted the crowd to "drag" shop owner, John Riggio, from his shop "like a rat" and "snuff" him. Rev. ...
Clinton: Shared Prosperity Should Replace 'On Your Own' Society
Post Date: 2007-05-29 16:04:03 by A K A Stone
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity. ADVERTISEMENT The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an "ownership society" really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor. "I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none." ...
AN OPEN LETTER TO RON PAUL TIME TO SHATTER THE HEGEMONY OF THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM
Post Date: 2007-05-29 00:10:34 by A K A Stone
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” -Henry David Thoreau Mr. Paul, you have served the cause of individual liberty superbly, and honorably, in your role as the last living statesman remaining in the United States Congress. You have recently gone on to score great rhetorical victories—and achieve much fame in the public eye—in the debates, where you have so adroitly told the world The Emperor Has No Clothes. You have earned the respect of virtually every libertarian in America, as well as every true conservative. You have served your country well, and, I might add, proudly represented the fine state of Texas. You ...
Iraq war funding bill fiasco masks collusion between Bush and Democrats
Post Date: 2007-05-28 16:26:25 by A K A Stone
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On May 22, 2007, Washington’s Democrats obediently capitulated to the Bush administration, handing Bush a war spending bill completely stripped of conditions that would, in any way, slow the administration’s relentless Middle East conflagration. In fact, the new bill is an even more egregious blank check for a massive “surge” of Bush administration violence throughout the region, opening the door for a war with Iran. New Iraq “benchmarks” pushed by the Democrats themselves will result in new atrocities and more bloodshed, funded by the Democrats themselves. In refusing to definitively corner a scandalized Bush administration, the Democratic Party leadership ...
Immigration Bill Could Outlaw Gun Shops
Post Date: 2007-05-28 07:54:40 by A K A Stone
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First, there was the McCarthy-Dingell bill. The folks on Capitol Hill have been telling you we need HR 297, a bill to greatly expand the Brady Law. They say it will stop future Virginia Tech shootings. And, oh yes, there's one more thing: they want you to believe the McCarthy-Dingell gun control bill isn't really gun control. Now, they want to bring you an anti-gun immigration amnesty bill. Already you're hearing it's not really an amnesty bill. (Yeah, right.) So don't be surprised if they tell you it's not an anti-gun bill either. Forget, for a moment, the fact that the immigration package negotiated in the Senate could grant amnesty to up to a hundred million ...
No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval
Post Date: 2007-05-27 15:46:59 by A K A Stone
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US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week. American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill’s prohibitions on judicial review. Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law. "EEVS would be a financial and bureaucratic nightmare ...
Horowitz Scrivener Castigates Millions of Americans as Fifth Column Traitors
Post Date: 2007-05-27 12:16:06 by A K A Stone
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Let us consider FrontPage magazine, the website run by former Marxist turned neocon David Horowitz, where the old stale one-dimensional political spectrum, otherwise known as the false left-right paradigm, remains in full swing, primarily due to the fact such dialectic blather attracts neocon wannabes with checkbooks. On May 21, John Perazzo played the left-right paradigm for all it is worth—that is to say not much—and attacked your humble blogger and a handful of others, including Dave Lindorff, Jason Miller, Mark Dice, the late Edward Said, and even the venerable target of opportunity for self-described “conservatives” and “liberals” alike, Noam Chomsky, as ...
Ron Paul on FMNN Radio, Thursday, 2PM EST
Post Date: 2007-05-27 12:02:39 by A K A Stone
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Presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) will appear on Free Market News Network's "Wake Up with Pat Gorman" Internet-based "live" radio program on Thursday, May 31. Questions and comments from viewers via phone and email will be accepted. Ron Paul’s message of free markets and small government has been lighting up the Internet. He has won poll after poll, even though the mainstream media have yet to recognize him as a serious candidate, let alone a front runner. “We are pleased that Ron Paul has taken time out of his busy schedule to appear on FMNN’s new program, Wake Up America, with Pat Gorman,” said CEO Donald J.(Jim) ...
Critical Care Without Consent Ethicists Disagree On Experimenting During Crises
Post Date: 2007-05-27 11:59:06 by A K A Stone
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The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients' permission. The $50 million, five-year project, which will involve more than 20,000 patients in 11 sites in the United States and Canada, is designed to improve treatment after car accidents, shootings, cardiac arrest and other emergencies. The three studies, organizers say, offer an unprecedented opportunity to find better ways to resuscitate people whose hearts suddenly stop, to stabilize patients who go into shock and to minimize damage from head injuries. Because ...
Hundreds boo former Bush chief of staff at University of Massachusetts commencement ceremony
Post Date: 2007-05-27 11:56:06 by A K A Stone
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Hundreds boo former Bush chief of staff at University of Massachusetts commencement ceremony Adam Doster Published: Saturday May 26, 2007 Print This Email This In video, booing is at 1:52 remaining in the video Andrew Card, President George W. Bush's former Chief of Staff, was showered with a chorus of boos and catcalls from students and faculty of the University of Massachusetts while receiving an honorary degree Friday. Protesters, who caught the embarrassing scene on video, attached anti-Card signs to their robes and drowned out Provost Charlena Seymour's remarks about Card's "public service." Even faculty sitting on stage joined in on the action, screaming ...
The Push For Internet Taxes In Full Swing
Post Date: 2007-05-27 11:39:33 by A K A Stone
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The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other Internet-service connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail. Pro-tax advocates this week advanced a flurry of proposals pushing in that direction. A bill was introduced that would usher in mandatory sales tax collection for Internet purchases. Then, during a House of Representatives hearing ...
Artists and labels seek royalties from radio
Post Date: 2007-05-26 00:19:02 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — With CD sales tumbling, record companies and musicians are looking at a new potential pot of money: royalties from broadcast radio stations. For years, stations have paid royalties to composers and publishers when they played their songs. But they enjoy a federal exemption when paying the performers and record labels because, they argue, the airplay sells music. Now, the Recording Industry Assn. of America and several artists' groups are getting ready to push Congress to repeal the exemption, a move that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually in new royalties. Mary Wilson, who with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard formed the original Supremes, said ...
TV Titans Plan Surge against American Character
Post Date: 2007-05-25 22:54:05 by A K A Stone
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Democracy beware! TV titans and the marketing industry are gearing up to sap our will and make Americans more passive than ever. Their ultimate goal: the breakup of American character followed by the commercialization of the American soul. This is TV’s negotiating time with advertisers. Networks and advertisers are meeting this month to plot the reinforcement and intensification of our mindless absorption of TV commercials. It seems that not enough of us are sitting comatose for hours of non-stop consumerist reverie. Too many of us, apparently, are getting up from TV sets to stretch our legs and use the bathroom. The industry is also upset at us for muting the commercials and ...
The Future of America Has Been Stolen: Democrats Working With Rove
Post Date: 2007-05-25 22:22:29 by A K A Stone
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Investigative reporter Greg Palast says 4.5 million votes will be shoplifted in 2008, thanks largely to the “Rove-bots” that have been placed in the Justice Department following the U.S. Attorney firings. Being the guy who uncovered the voter “purge lists” of 2000 that disenfranchised black voters, he’s worth listening to, even if the mainstream press chooses not to. This time around, he claims to have the 500 emails that the House subpoenaed and Karl Rove claims were deleted forever. They prove definitively, says Palast, that the Justice Department is infested with operatives taking orders from Rove to steal upcoming elections for Republicans and permanently alter ...
Does John McCains wife still pop pills?
Post Date: 2007-05-25 21:39:34 by A K A Stone
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BOSTON -- Despite being married to a high-profile presidential candidate, Cindy McCain is keeping her feet on the ground. Cindy McCain Cindy McCain has four children -- Meghan, 15; Jack, 13; Jimmy, 11; and Bridget, 8. The wife of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is seeking the Republican nomination in 2000, Mrs. McCain says she would make her family her main priority if she became first lady. "I have a very primary concern and that is my four children " she said. " I have four school-age children. I have to be -- as I am now -- a hands-on mom." Mrs. McCain, 45, is from a wealthy Phoenix, Arizona, family and has been married to McCain since 1980. But she has long been ...
Attorneys Scandal: An Illegal White House-coordinated Effort to Swing Elections to Republicans
Post Date: 2007-05-21 07:37:17 by A K A Stone
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Connect the Justice Department dots and you see an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It's Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 30 COMMENTS Share & save this story: Digg iconDelicious iconReddit iconFark iconYahoo! iconNewsvine! icon Also in Top Stories U.S. Imperial Ambitions Thwart Iraqis' Peace Plans Joshua Holland, Raed Jarrar, Why Working Less is Better for the Globe Dara Colwell, AlterNet Surprise: Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Far to Go to Meet Voters' Desires on the Environment Robert L. Borosage, Katrina vanden Heuvel, http://TomPaine.com 'Tom Cruise's Church of Hate Tried to ...
Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency
Post Date: 2007-05-20 23:12:45 by A K A Stone
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The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. The directive released on May 9th, 2007 has gone almost unnoticed by the mainstream and alternative media. This is understandable considering the huge Ron Paul and immigration news but this story is equally as huge. In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency” the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency. The directive defines a “Catastrophic Emergency” ...
Michigan GOP Move To Kick Ron Paul Out Of Debates Dropped
Post Date: 2007-05-19 20:12:54 by A K A Stone
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Freedom of speech has just registered a crushing victory after it was announced that the Michigan GOP have dropped their move to have Congressman Ron Paul kicked out of the Republican debates. Though we still have to be wary that other factions within the GOP could seek to bar Ron Paul, we have shot down this trial balloon for now. The RNC and the Michigan GOP received thousands of calls after we quickly organized a campaign and a petition in opposition to Michigan head Saul Anuzis' action to circulate a petition calling for Ron Paul to be removed from all future debates. Others also circulated online petitions to counter the move, totaling over 20,000 signatures between all the ...
Rudy Campaign Reportedly Snubs Farmer For Not Being Rich; Will Media Cover It?
Post Date: 2007-05-19 18:37:09 by A K A Stone
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OLIN–Last weekend Deb and Jerry VonSprecken of Olin received a call from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s campaign office asking them if they would be interested in holding a campaign rally on May 4, after she had donated to his campaign. “We thought it would be an honor and agreed,” said Jerry. The campaign office continued to contact the VonSpreckens throughout last weekend and were told a security check would be needed. The couple passed the security check and began putting plans in place. “We started making phone calls. We got the sheriff and fire department and Olin school was going to let out early. We were also expecting kids from the Anamosa ...
Rudy Giuliani's Wife Judi Is A Puppy Murderer
Post Date: 2007-05-19 18:21:49 by A K A Stone
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There is a disturbing story today in the NY Post. Judi Nathan worked for US Surgical for four years, and demonstrated their stapling technique. What the company would do was procure dogs, cut them open, staple them up to demonstrate the product’s efficiency to the doctors. Those dogs who survived the surgery were euthanized. She worked there for four years. In Sunday’s Post, Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign spokesman, Michael McKeon, said of Judi Giuliani’s work with U.S. Surgical, “She was in the operating room hundreds of times, using her nursing skills and training doctors in the stapling technique.” Asked yesterday about the procedure being performed ...
Pussyboy Saul Anuzis is afraid of Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-05-17 10:41:58 by A K A Stone
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy. Michigan party chairman Saul Anuzis said he will circulate a petition among Republican National Committee members to ban Paul from more debates. At a GOP candidates' debate Tuesday night, Paul drew attacks from all sides, most forcefully from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, when he linked the terror attacks to U.S. bombings. "Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us ...
Ron Paul to Rudy--"Read the 9/11 Report!"
Post Date: 2007-05-16 23:31:42 by A K A Stone
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This is the video of Ron on Wolf Blitzer's show from a couple of hours ago....
Iraq: The Web of Lies
Post Date: 2007-05-15 08:24:15 by continental op
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Who knows what to believe about the bloody catastrophe that is Iraq? Faced with the serial deceptions of Richard Cheney and George W. Bush, layer upon layer, we tend to become inured. We do know now that what we were told back then by the White House was hogwash. Yes, I am referring, once more, to the run-up, to the origins, and to the actual reason for the fraudulent enterprise, resulting in a full-blown fiasco, code-named 60;Operation Iraqi Freedom61;. This is not beating a dead horse. The issue could be grounds for impeachment. It is already the reason why Cheney57;s former chief-of-staff is a convicted felon. By promoting his memoir, At The Center of the Storm, ex-CIA supremo George ...
Pentagon limits troops' Web access
Post Date: 2007-05-15 06:49:44 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. ADVERTISEMENT It just got tougher to do that for Zimmerman and a lot of other U.S. soldiers. No more using the military's computer system to socialize and trade videos on MySpace, YouTube and nine other Web sites, the Pentagon says. Citing security concerns and technological limits, the Pentagon has cut off access to those sites for personnel using the Defense Department's computer network. The change limits use of the popular outlets for service members on the front lines, who regularly post ...
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